Provocations on the Personal API

The Personal API. It’s a really interesting idea - to have your own way of interacting with online systems. Most big online systems today utilise APIs (or Application Programming Interface) in order to transfer and transact information. APIs have been around for a long time, but they’ve mostly been internal and accessible only by developers. …

Empowering the Node & Avoiding Enclosure

This is my presentation from the dLRN15 conference - Empowering the Node & Avoiding Enclosure. Below you can watch a audio of the talk + slides or just the slides below. In this presentation I've really tried to highlight the perceived problem with current online technologies and practices, distilling it down to the concept of …

Make Your Own Slogan: MYOS and the Networked Future

When I started this post it was only a week since I submitted an abstract for the dLRN15 Conference, but the it's taken much longer to pull this post together than I originally thought. The title of the talk that I submitted was Empowering the Node & Avoiding Enclosure and in this post I want …